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Holiday 2006 Catalogue

Holiday 2006 soap descriptions:

Key:
*=denotes organic ingredient
+=denotes wild-crafted ingredient

Baby soap:
This is a lovely, little bar of soap for that little bundle of joy in your life. Having an especially soft, mild bar made small and thin to make bath time a full of cheer for baby and parents, this bar is only lightly scented with Mandarin orange essential oil as babies are not meant to have a lot of scent on their skin. Ingredients: coconut oil*, avocado oil, sweet almond oil*, castor oil*, lye, cocoa butter*, mandarin orange EO.
2 sizes: 1.9 oz $4.00
1.5 oz $3.50




















Liberty Bar:
Calling all allergy sufferers and sensitive skin people—we announce freedom in soap form from artificial and natural scents, colorings, and irritants. Following the principle of K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple, silly!), this is just a basic, soft bar of light-colored soap that will hopefully keep you clear of all that bothers you. Ingredients: coconut oil*, castor oil*, extra virgin olive oil*, lye.
1 size: 2.8 oz $6.00




















Basic Soap for the Holidays:
Prairie Soap House’s special basic soap blend made seasonally fresh with pine needle scented essential oil and chlorella powder to turn the soap green. This is the smell and sight of that Christmas tree as it sits in your living room, warming to the heat of your home, unfurling its branches, and giving you its beautiful scent and undecorated sights. This bar has a higher percentage of coconut oil, giving it a more firm consistency than some of the other bars on our menu for this season. Ingredients: coconut oil*, castor oil*, sesame oil*, lye, chlorella powder, Scotch pine essential oil, palm oil*.
1 size: 3.6 oz $7.00




















Milk Chocolate Bar:
PSH’s first milk soap, this bar is also colored with cocoa powder and scented with Peru balsam, allspice, and cardamom essential oils to give you the experience of a high-priced, specialty chocolate bar without the calories! Warning: it may smell and look as good as your Great Aunt Ethel’s Fudge—but please don’t eat it. Ingredients: coconut oil*, organic 2% milk*, castor oil*, sunflower oil*, soybean oil*, hazelnut oil, lye, cocoa butter*, cocoa powder, peru balsam EO, allspice EO, cardamom EO.
1 size: 2.8 oz $6.00















Peppermint Cookie Dough:
You know those really good candy-cane peppermint cookies that the ladies at your church or work make every year (and maybe you do, too)? Well, this is the soap version of that very dough. This bar smells so great, I am thinking of leaving it permanently on our standard menu. The scent of organic peppermint oil combines with Dragon’s Blood Resin (don’t worry—it isn’t scary!) and the soap recipe to provide you with a strange, little bar that looks something like an unbaked sugar cookie with red flecks and an amazing peppermint scent. Ingredients: coconut oil*, castor oil*, neem oil, hazelnut oil*, lye, cocoa butter*, peppermint EO*, dragon’s blood resin, alcohol.
2 sizes of a very whimsically-shaped bar: 1.8 oz $5.50
2.3 oz $6.25




















Nutcracker Nutmeg Bar:
Moving more into the luxurious category of soaps, we find our Nutcracker Nutmeg bar with our high-end, exotic nut oils. Folklorically speaking, the nut oils contain some of the best moisturizing and most nourishing qualities of all of the oils. But we use them because they smell and look great. This bar has the added asset of organic nutmeg essential oil to give you an amazing scent experience. This bar looks and smells like eggnog (no eggs included). Ingredients: Coconut oil*, sesame oil*, soybean oil*, sweet almond oil*, macadamia nut oil*, lye, mango butter, nutmeg EO, ground nutmeg.
1 size: 4 oz $8.50

Silk Stockings Vanilla:
After a long day shopping at the mall, a girl wants to go home, kick up her heels, and swim around in something silky. And that’s exactly what you can do with this bar because it actually contains liquid silk (yes, I know, it seems preposterous, but it is true). In addition to this, Silk Stockings Vanilla affords the amazing opportunity to use two very special ingredients: evening primrose oil and organic vanilla essential oil (which for a .125 oz bottle costs $17.00 alone!) This bar is geared right towards you, girls! And I should add, your man should like it too, since most men are very attracted to the scent of vanilla. So, complement your holiday experience with a little romance from the aide of this amazing bar. Made to look pretty (just like you) in a mold. Ingredients: Coconut oil*, sweet almond oil*, extra virgin olive oil*, evening primrose oil*, lye, cocoa butter*, vanilla essential oil*.
3 sizes: 1 oz $3.00 (for taste-testing)
3 oz $8.00
5 oz $13.00




















Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh Bar:
Drum roll please (or should I say Little Drummer Boy—drum away?) Prairie Soap House’s first translucent bar, this bar holds some very interesting surprises: glittery sparkles, frankincense essential oil, and myrrh essential oil. Like the Magi, we hope you are captivated and entranced by this mysterious combination of ingredients. This bar would make a great gift for those important people in your life—and if you have never smelled frankincense & myrrh—don’t wait a second longer. Ingredients: coconut oil*, Everclear, castor oil*, cocoa butter*, wheat germ oil, vegetable glycerin, palm oil*, lye, sugar, glitter, frankincense EO*, myrrh EO. (The combination of the Everclear, the lye and the glycerin is what gives this bar its clarity, but don’t worry, none of these ingredients are left in the final product). Note: the glitter is a synthetic ingredient.
2 sizes: 1 oz $8.00
1.9 oz $12.00





















****Sale Items****
PSH is now offering our Fall 2006 soaps at 50% off. This is a great opportunity to stock up on your favorite selection or to try the ones that you didn’t get to before.

Prairie Lilac Soap
Slightly exfoliating soap saturated with tones like a purple crayon to spark your creativity
Coconut oil*, water, sodium hydroxide (lye), soybean oil*, alkanet root powder+, sunflower oil*, lilac EO, Peru balsam EO+. Net wt 4oz
Do not use if pregnant, test if using on a porous surface.***
Original price: $5.75
Sale price: $2.88

Luxury Massage Bar
“Double-milled” guest bar designed with exotic oils for a one-time use to chase your troubles away. Don’t worry, bean happy! (We say “one time use;” however, experience has shown that this bar lasts much longer).
Coconut oil*, water, palm oil, lye, sesame oil*, glycerin, macadamia nut oil*, apricot kernel oil, cocoa butter, shea butter, Hawaiian lavender EO, ylang-ylang EO*, cedar EO+, bergamot EO*, ground cardamon, alkanet root powder+, beans.
Net wt 2-3oz
Original price: $5.50
Sale price: $2.75

Updates on Holiday orders & The Soaper's Segment

Holiday soaps are almost ready--they were born this week--and just simply need to be tested and then photographed before we can show them to you. Rest assured, you have a lot of fun to look forward to for your holiday ordering. I will have pictures and post descriptions early next week, and we will begin taking pre-orders next week with delivery to begin the week of November 20th. For now, I leave you with some creative reading:

The Soaper’s Segment
A place to air out some ideas and clear up misconceptions
Customer questions:
What is soap?
Soap is simply a material that results from a specific chemical reaction between an acid (in this case sodium hydroxide) and a base (the oils). There are actually six different, and sometimes very complicated, chemical reactions that will result in soap. The reaction that Prairie Soap House prefers to use is the one involving lye and water mixed with oils called the Cold Process.
Soap works because it is a surfactant, meaning that it creates an atmosphere on your skin (or whatever else you are washing) where the “stuff” stuck on your skin becomes slippery and more easily washes away in water.
I see that lye is an ingredient in your recipes. Isn’t lye bad for you?
Lye is the catalyst for a chemical reaction. Without getting into the chemistry, what PSH can assure you of, is that in our soaps, at the end of the reaction, and when you receive the soap, there will be no lye left in the soap. This is because the chemical reaction required to make soap actually changes the chemical structure of ALL of the ingredients—the oils are no longer just oils, the water is no longer just water, and the lye is no longer present—it is cancelled out by the process. What is more, all of Prairie Soap House’s soaps are “super-fatted soaps” meaning that there is an excess of fat required for a complete chemical reaction. Some would say that this excess oil will create more of a moisturizing bar, but legally we can’t claim this because of government regulations.
Are you all organic?
Prairie Soap House has a tremendous dedication to personal and corporate responsibility to sustainable living and the environment as well as natural health and well-being. We do not use an excess of packaging materials, and we order our raw ingredients from companies that also have a strong commitment to environmental responsibility. Additionally, we believe it is very important that no synthetic ingredients be included in any of our products, and if any ingredient of question is ever used, there will be a specific alert in the description of that soap. In order for a product to be called “organic” it has to be a large percentage of certified organic materials. For a company to claim their product is organic, many requirements must be met and several certification processes must be undertaken. For now, because we cannot at this time financially sustain the certification processes, we at this time are committed to letting you know which of our raw ingredients are organic or wild-crafted (taken from wild sources, i.e. forests, prairies and the like). We encourage you to read our ingredient lists and compare them with many of the products sitting on your bathroom counter. You will find that our products contain no chemicals (other than the lye which is gone from the soap after the chemical reactions occur) or artificial colorings and fragrances are contained within our products. Unless otherwise noted, our ingredients are 100% natural and pure and from environmentally conscious sources.
Why can’t you tell me the benefits of the ingredients in your products?
Prairie Soap House sells soaps. Soap is simply something that cleans. If we were to claim any further benefits than cleanliness, our product would no longer fall into the category of soap, and we would be in default of complying with government regulations in regards to cosmetics and drugs. Again, we encourage you to do your research on our ingredients and find out for yourself the large body of research available in regards to the possible benefits or drawbacks to any of our raw materials. Occassionally, for special items, we may point out the folkloric qualities of healing or various claims made of certain materials, but we are not allowed to concretely say that something DOES in fact moisturize, heal, prevent aging, etc, etc. For further information, you can always contact a qualified herbalist.